§ MR. R. McNEILLasked the Pensions Minister whether he is aware that the wife of Private S. Eldridge, No. 10102, Royal Army Veterinary Corps, is entitled, under a separation or maintenance order of Court, to receive the pension payable to her husband on account of his four children, and that, unless this pension is regularly paid, she and her children are reduced to destitution; if he is aware that her pension book ran out on the 17th of September, and that since that date all her efforts to obtain a new book and the payments to which she is entitled have been fruitless; and whether he will give instructions for the immediate payment of what is due to Mrs. Eldridge and for regularity of payment to her in future?
§ Sir L. WORTHINGTON - EVANSThere has been some difficulty in this case owing to the failure of Private Eldridge to forward a life certificate, but the continuance of the payment of the children's allowances to Mrs. Eldridge has now been authorised. The period of the present award will expire on 2nd December, and unless Private Eldridge reappears and submits himself to medical re-examination, payment of the allowances must then cease.